The start of Linux was what I might call a wierd one. It started with a group of hackers that wanted to be able to change the software on the computers they were using. Here is an excerpt from The Cathedral and The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond, "The tribe of Hackers, after decades spent in obscurity strugguling against hard technical problems and the far greater wieght of mainstream indefrence and dismissal, has recently begun to come into its own. They built the Internet; they built UNIX; they built the World Wide Web; they're building Linux and the open-source software today; and, following the great internet explosion of the mid-1990's, the rest of the world is finally figuring it out that they should have been paying more atention to them after all along."
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The start of Linux was what I might call a wierd one. It started with a group of hackers that wanted to be able to change the software on the computers they were using. Here is an excerpt from The Cathedral and The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond, "The tribe of Hackers, after decades spent in obscurity strugguling against hard technical problems and the far greater wieght of mainstream indefrence and dismissal, has recently begun to come into its own. They built the Internet; they built UNIX; they built the World Wide Web; they're building Linux and the open-source software today; and, following the great internet explosion of the mid-1990's, the rest of the world is finally figuring it out that they should have been paying more atention to them after all along."